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...policies are working-Sadat will take the Nixons the next morning on a slow train to Alexandria, 140 miles away. They will spend part of the time in an observation car so that the Americans can wave to the three to five million Egyptians who are expected to swarm along the tracks. "If our security people had a vote," said one White House adviser, "I'm sure we wouldn't go on that train trip...
...Angeles, the Big Quake finally happens, sundering the foundations of the giant Hollywood reservoir. In San Francisco, the world's tallest building, a 136-story glass tower, explodes in flames. Vast armies of ants relentlessly eat their way across the great southwest desert. Billions of giant bees swarm malevolently through the steel canyons of New York City, and somewhere underground the survivors of nuclear warfare find their cavernous retreat invaded by hordes of vampire bats...
...Buon Yun supplement their spare diet of present comforts with the rich legends from a past that is never very far behind them. The birth of each child precipitates a search for the proper dewdrop, containing the spirit of the appropriate ancestor, to place on its tongue. Spirits swarm through the village, susceptible to human requests but never recriminations; when disasters occur they only mean that the prayers of the living have been improperly presented. A'de, their creator, is still in his heaven, holding Buon Yun up by means of a sturdy rope...
...week bookkeeper, Merle was dropping out of the ninth grade to take any job he could find-pitching hay, sacking potatoes, roughnecking it on oil rigs. He had an easy sexuality, and the girls came around without his asking, just as the "snuff queens"-the country term for groupies-swarm around him at concerts now. At 16, he set up housekeeping in Eugene, Ore., with one of the girls. It lasted three months, and when it broke up, he went back to Bakersfield on a freight. And he ran into trouble with...
...territory by sailing the punt out of bounds as close to the goal line as possible. Trapped inside their own ten, a team will not risk an interception by throwing the ball, and will be reduced to grinding yardage out on the ground. Ideally, the defense could then swarm all over the bottled-up offense and force another punt...